Pavel Tokarev, Crimea’s former Minister of Finance, died in a car accident, the website of the State Council of the Republic reported.

The accident occurred on October 17.

Tokarev was born on January 5, 1961, in the town of Mukachevo, Transcarpathian region. He came to work with the Yalta finance department in 1985. He was the Finance Minister of the Crimea between 2006 and 2010, then Head of the State Financial Inspection between 2012 and 2014, Head of the Financial Supervision Service of the Republic between 2014 and 2017, and became Advisor to the Chairman of the State Council in 2017.

Tokarev was awarded the title of Honored Economist of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea in 2013, and then was awarded the medal For Valiant Labor in 2015 and got a valuable gift from the Chairman of the State Council of Crimea.